Category: Race
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Cops in Madison schools, Part #2
Lesson #1 is Discipline Fewer arrests don’t necessarily translate into safer schools and racial disparity continues Defining deviance down I’ve read the statistics. Yes, student arrests in Madison’s public schools are down 22% over the last four years. Two possible reasons: That EROs are making headway. Or, discouragingly, because that is how MMSD defines success.…
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At Madison high schools beset by brawls, school board considers booting cops
Discipline is Lesson #1 The goal should be helping students learn, not making the numbers look good That is done by demanding high standards Police EROs L-R: Justin Creech, West; Ken Mosley, La Follette; Zulma Franco, East; Tray Turner, Memorial H.S. Time for the Madison school board to hear from real people instead of the…
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Let’s experiment with public safety
Do you feel like Madison is safer today than 10 years ago? Honey, I shrunk the jail What have we been saying? The Blaska Policy Werkes bucked the Derail the Jail crowd last fall to support a more humane Dane County jail, one that offered mental health and AODA treatment. But we argued that they weren’t…
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Under ‘Race’ let’s mark ‘None’
… of yer damned bidness! Let’s end America’s toxic preoccupation with racial taxonomy The late, great John Patrick Hunter was a liberal journalist for The Capital Times. He won national fame for an Independence Day stunt in 1951 when he asked Madisonians to sign his petition. (Only one consented. Hunter’s petition consisted of the Declaration of…
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The police study wanted to (in effect) disarm Madison police
Blaska Policy Werkes recommendation #1: Do not assault a police officer If the generals in Madison’s War on Cops had their way, police would be stripped of their sidearms and sent to restorative justice camps if they dared fight back when assaulted. The Derail the Jail crowd, BLM, and Progressive Dane claimed a major victory…
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Madison cop hater plays fast and loose
Read it and weep: Madison’s high schools should keep their cops Amelia Royko Maurer appears to have some anger issues. I don’t know if her cop hate originated with or precedes the death of her friend Paul Heenan* in November 2012 but wherever there is an opportunity, our Derail the Jail-er is front and center…